Mari Jose Urruzola

Urruzola lived her childhood and adolescence between Donostia and Madrid. She worked to be able to afford university studies in Madrid where she graduated in philosophy and later she was a professor of that subject during her professional career. She completed a postgraduate course in coeducation at the University of Barcelona. ==Career==

Urruzola was committed to coeducation and feminism in her life. Since the 1970s, through groups of women teachers and educators that emerged within the feminist movement, she began to study how to apply feminist theory to education, leading to coeducation. Starting in 1985, other social groups and institutions were incorporated into the coeducational task and non-sexist publications. Urruzola, within this evolution of the mixed school towards coeducation, conceived education as a means to improve people. In her experience as a teacher, Urruzola worked and disseminated her idea of educating in equality and without stereotypes, with coeducation as the fundamental basis. She founded the "" (Lanbroa Feminist Collective), of which she was president, as well as the feminist associations "Emilia Pardo Bazán" and "Emaitza". She was a co-founder of the Confederation of Feminist Organizations. She also stood in the 1999 European Parliament election. In 2000, she was one of the founders of the Partido Feminista de Euskadi (Euskadi Feminist Party) that presented Zuriñe del Cerro as a candidate for Mayor of Bilbao. ==Awards and honours==

• 2006, posthumously, the (Emakunde Award for Equality) • 2008, a tribute by the Bilbao City Council, the Lanbroa Feminist Collective and the Feminist Party of Spain == Selected works ==

Books • Sexualidad en la escuela, 1985 • ¿Es posible coeducar en la actual escuela mixta?: una programación curricular de aula sobre las relaciones afectivas y sexuales • Aprendiendo a amar desde el aula, 1991 • Guía para chicas. Cómo andar por casa, 1992 • Guía para chicas. Cómo prevenir y defenderte de las agresiones, 1992 • Introducción a la filosofía coeducadora, 1995 • Educación de las relaciones afectivas y sexuales desde la filosofía coeducadora, 1997 • Violencia de género: el maltrato escondido: guía para identificar y superar las causas de la violencia cotidiana, 2001 • Igualdad y responsabilidad en la edad de la sabiduría: vivir y envejecer con protagonismo y autoridad personal, 2003 • Vivir la separación como una oportunidad para aprender: guía para la corresponsabilidad en la reconstrucción emocional, 2003 Collaborations in collective works • Coeducar para el desarrollo físico, 1993 • Ser chica en una escuela de chicos, 1993 • La coeducación una alternativa transversal a la escuela actual, 1995 • Educar en la igualdad, un camino hacia la prevención de la violencia, 2000 • Una programación curricular de aula sobre las relaciones afectivas y sexuales, 2004 • Una programación curricular de aula sobre las relaciones afectivas y sexuales, 2007 • La educación de las relaciones afectivas y sexuales, 2007 ==References==